Gregory's Server
Holy shit.
"Despite never seeing combat, Card's role as a grenade instructor would have exposed him to thousands of blasts over eight years."
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@glennf @itty53 @clive Regardless of if that assertion is true or not, there are many types of brain injury and dysfunction that result in uncontrollable behaviour.  @robloblaw @glennf @itty53 @clive @falcennial @itty53 @glennf @clive when I was an Army cadet we went to a training program where we were required to throw one live grenade. But there were national guard instructors who stood in the grenade pits all day all summer and helped cadet after cadet throw one grenade. There were thousands of us in a single summer. The same thing is repeated at basic training, and advanced training day in and out. @itty53 @glennf @clive also there are tons of non-SOF careers that are centered around these blasts. Mortars and Artillery https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/us/blast-mortar-brain-injury-military.html Anti-tank and anti-air weapons: @Enema_Cowboy @itty53 @glennf @clive no, I was a signal officer, so I didn't spend a lot of time around big booms outside of the basic orientation and qualification on individual weapons. I was a Combat Engineer, but we did fire 105mm howitzers and 4.2" mortars at Advanced Camp.  |
@itty53 @clive Yeah, this came out via an autopsy not long after the murder spree. I feel terribly for everyone but this feels like he was turned into a killer by accident—we all have agency, but this is something beyond beyond.